The crux of whether or not this *matters* is whether any of his cuts would have been picked. Looks like he needs to cut ELEVEN of the following players (my estimate of his cut candidates):
Josh VanMeter
Yoenis Cespedes
Travis Shaw
Ty France
Scooter Gennett
Starlin Castro
Wade Miley
Homer Bailey
Nick Pivetta
Trevor Richards
Richard Rodriguez
Adbert Alzolay
Johnny Cueto
Lucas Sims
Corey Knebel
Pedro Strop
If there are 11 names that almost certainly would not have been picked, we can just appoint someone as an interim manager for now, tell him to cut down to 23 immediately, and move on. I can't see any names above that would obviously have been picked. I see a couple that someone may have taken...
I think what I would like to do is:
- Appoint Carlos or someone else interested as interim manager. OR I just take over the team and make arbitrary decisions through the waiver draft.
- Tell him to cut down to 23 immediately. Waiver draft moves along. The cut players can be picked during the draft.
- I will penalize the organization for f***ing up my day. It will lose the 29th overall pick in the MiLB draft.
- If L54 shows up in the next two weeks and can explain his sudden negligence (beer stein to the head, etc.) he gets his team back.
Any thoughts or objections?